Call it a Mexican Dental Vacation, Dental Travel or Dental Holiday.. Whatever you call it...
If not planned properly - dental tourism can be your worst nightmare come true.
By David de Los Angeles
Here's how to avoid starring in your own dental vacation horror story:
1. Always get estimates from board certified dentists who are accredited for your procedures. Board certified dentists in most developing countries cost the same as less trained general dentists. And many general dentists would love to learn advanced dentistry at your expense. Board Certified Dentists Internationale' Association will get 1-3 estimates for you without any additional cost or obligation.
2. Choose dentists who speak your language. So you won't need to know how to say “Take it easy doc!” in Spanish, Thai or Mandarin. Most foreign board certified dentists speak English fairly well as they often use English language textbooks and many do graduate study in the US & UK.
3. Avoid commercial dental broker agencies like WhatEva Dentist, Tooth Fairy-a-GoGo, DentureAdvetures etc. who list any dentists who pay their fees and who cannot possibly vet the 1,000’s of dentists they feature. Properly vetting each dentist can often take weeks contacting and recontacting local authorities and colleges. Best go direct to the specialist associations to avoid the non-certified dentists who make up the majority of the listings on those sites. The specialist associations do a good job keeping the riff-raff off their rosters. And by going direct you avoid the agency fees.
4. Be extra cautious in Mexican border towns where US insurance companies finance dental mills staffed by in-experienced dental school grads at mininum wage. The Mexican authorities have shut-down unlicensed dentists from Central American & the US (really), dental school drop-outs and dental techs posing as dentists in Mexican border towns preying on day-tripping patients from the US. It's easy money for these posers.
5. Avoid general dentists representing themselves as “specialists” offering very low prices on crowns or (God forbid) dental implants (see #4 again). Most dental horror stories result from general dentists in over their heads. (see #4 again to be sure your implants don't go sideways).
6. For accurate and reliable dental estimates – email a board certified dentist x-rays, dentist treatment plan and a recent panoramic x-ray for your dental implants other oral surgery. And give them all the details you can think of - number of units needed, your health, allergies, meds taken, age, smoker etc. If no pano is available - don't worry, they are only $50-65 in Mexico vs. $150- 300 in the US. Same equipment.
7. Wikipedia – Dentists in Mexico & Asia (In English) Certified Dentists Internationale’ gives Free estimates and referrals by certified dentists: www.certifieddentists.org/
8. Wikipedia - Mexico: Asociación Dental Mexicana (in Spanish) www.adm.org.mx/
General dentists and Board Certified dentists are mixed here - you will have to sort them.
By David de Los Angeles
Health Care Travel Writer -
For Dental Tourism News Today
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